From the bestselling author of Writing Down the Bones comes a luminous spiritual autobiography for readers of Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul. "Goldberg's writing offers a path, a highway, to that elusive place deep wi thin our own lives where divinity sits".--Thomas Moore.

Natalie Goldberg shares the many moments of truth in her life as a writer and devoted Zen student. She illustrates the challenges and rewards that unfold when a Western student seeks a teacher of Eastern wisdom.